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swf exports are disappointing
Hello,
We have just updated to AE 6.5 and I was hopeful that the .swf exporting option would have improved from previous versions. Alas it has not.
I am curious of the real purpose of this feature if any one does know.
Basically when an AE timeline is compressed into an .swf it is slow, about half speed of normal playback. This seems to lose the point of doing this.
If anybody happens to know of any pointers on this issue please let me know!
Also if anybody is aware of any other way to make an .swf from an After Effect project that plays at normal speed that would work as well.
thanks,
Glen
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5 Replies
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The experts here would probably know why this is happening, but frankly I don’t see why it should. I’ve exported many .swf files from AE 6.5 without any timing problems. What frame rate is your original comp? Are you using any interlaced format?
– A. A.
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how exactly do you do it?
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The key to getting good results is having nothing in your comp that has to be rasterized. That means no effects, image files, precomps, or 3D. If you restrict your comp to solids and Illustrator files you should be OK. Otherwise your file size will balloon and performance will suffer.
Dan
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New project, new comp (300×200, 20fps, 10sec long), add a text layer, throw in some animations and effects, File->Export->Macromedia Flash (SWF), select file, Set Jpeg Quality to High (6), Rasterize unsupported features, no audio, no options checked.
The resultling .swf file looks very similar to the original comp, with the obvious slight degradation in image quality. As you can see the comp is 20fps, I don’t know how far .swf can be pushed but you shouldn’t try to venture far beyond that point. Flash is not meant for the editing room 🙂
– A. A.
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Well would that mean that layers from a Photoshop file (.psd) would be considered something that has to be rasterized?
Basically of the 3 or 4 times i have exported an .swf file and it has played back slow, each AE project has usually had 1 or 2
animated Photoshop images with basic simple animations. And thats it.
Is there something I should do to the .psd before importing that into AE?
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